Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (, Anatolij Evgen ' evič Karpov ; born May 23, 1951 ) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

Karpov was born on May 23, 1951 at Zlatoust in the Urals region of the former Soviet Union, and learned to play chess at the age of four.

At twelve, he was accepted into Mikhail Botvinnik's prestigious chess school, though Botvinnik made the following remark about the young Karpov: " The boy does not have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession.

* 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.

Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a current world number one player, and has defeated nine current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Anatoli Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

In 1998 Polgár defeated Anatoly Karpov in a match of " action " chess ( 30 minutes per game ).

In June 1998 in Budapest, Polgár played an eight game match of " action " chess, which is 30 minutes for the entire game, against Anatoly Karpov.

* 1951 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player

* May 23 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player

* April 3 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title.

Students at the gifted school have lunchboxes that feature images of the 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited and chess grandmaster Anatoly Karpov.

Although the protagonists were not intended to represent any specific individuals, the character of the American was loosely based on chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer, while elements of the story may have been inspired by the chess careers of Russian grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov.

In a blitz chess tournament in Reykjavík, Iceland, Carlsen defeated former world champion Anatoly Karpov on 17 March 2004.

Unzicker was at times the world's strongest amateur chess player, and World Champion Anatoly Karpov called him the " world champion of amateurs ".

* 1985-Garry Kasparov defeats Anatoly Karpov to become the thirteenth World Chess Champion 13-11, and then dominates world chess for the next 15 years.

After losing the match to Karpov, Kamsky gave up chess.

For the first time in chess history there were two world champions, the FIDE world champion Karpov and the PCA world champion Kasparov.

Krasenkow – Karpov, in the first round of the 2003 Corus chess tournament, reached the diagrammed position with Black to play.

One subvariation, frequently played by Karpov, including four games of his 1987 world championship match against Kasparov in Seville, Spain, is the Seville Variation, after 6 ... Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8. Ne2 Nc6 9. Be3 0-0 10. 0-0 Bg4 11. f3 Na5 12. Bxf7 +, long thought a poor move by theory, as the resultant light-square weakness had been believed to give Black more than enough compensation for the pawn.

Positional pawn sacrifices abound for both sides and the theory is very highly developed, thanks to decades of research by the most elite chess players such as Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Boris Gelfand and countless others.

Karpov was on record saying that he believed Spassky would easily beat him and win the Candidates ' cycle to face Fischer, and that he ( Karpov ) would win the following Candidates ' cycle in 1977.

Though a world championship match between Karpov and Fischer was highly anticipated, those hopes were never realised.

Garry Kasparov argued that Karpov would have had good chances, because he had beaten Spassky convincingly and was a new breed of tough professional, and indeed had higher quality games, while Fischer had been inactive for three years.

There was a three – way tie for first between Karpov, Topalov and Boris Gelfand and a three – way tie for fourth between Kramnik, Polgár and Lékó.

At the time Karpov was FIDE World Champion.

At the time Karpov was the FIDE World Champion.

The Japfa Classic in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, was a category XVI event of 10 players in which included Alexander Khalifman – at the time FIDE world champion – and Anatoly Karpov – his predecessor.

One of the highlight games of the tournament was Polgár's fourth round crushing victory over Anatoly Karpov.

The route which now is known as the classic route, via the Razdelnaya Peak and NW Ridge, was first climbed in 1954 by the team of Soviet climbers under the direction of V. Kovalev ( P. Karpov, E. Nagel, V. Narishkin, V. Nozdryuhin ).

In November and December, Spassky finished the year by tying for sixth with Tal, scoring + 4 − 2 = 11, at the Alekhine Memorial in Moscow, which was won by Stein and Anatoly Karpov, the latter's first top-class success.

His best result during this period was clear first at Linares 1983 with 6½ / 10, ahead of Karpov and Ulf Andersson, who shared second.

By 1982 Timman was ranked second in the world, behind only Anatoly Karpov.

However, after Short and Garry Kasparov played their World Championship match outside of the auspices of the sport's governing body FIDE, Timman was invited to compete against Karpov for the FIDE version of the world title.

He also won a game against Viktor Korchnoi, who then invited Seirawan to Switzerland, where Korchnoi was training for his world title match against Anatoly Karpov .< ref >

In the semi-final, in 1992, the Englishman overcame the legendary Russian Anatoly Karpov (+ 4 = 4 – 2 ) in a match that was described as " the end of an era.

The four-game portion was won by Karpov 2½ – 1½ ( 1 win, 3 draws ), and the rapid-play portion also went to Karpov, 1½ – ½ ( 1 win, 1 draw ).< ref >

Miles beat Karpov again three years later in Bath in a game that was part of the BBC's Mastergame series, but it was only shown by the ( co-producing ) German television network, due to a BBC technicians ' strike at the time of broadcast.

In 1983, at the age of 62, he went through to the Candidates ' Final ( the match to determine who plays the champion, in that case Anatoly Karpov ), losing 8. 5 – 4. 5 at Vilnius 1984 to Garry Kasparov, who was 21 at the time, and who went on to beat Karpov to become world champion in 1985.

* Karpov-MIles, Bath, England 1983, Caro-Kann 0-1 Another win against Karpov, then still a very strong world champion and again with black.

Karpov improved so quickly under Botvinnik's tutelage that he became the youngest Soviet National Master in history at fifteen in 1966 ; this tied the record established by Boris Spassky in 1952.

In 1969, Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky ( 1955 ) to win the World Junior Chess Championship, scoring an undefeated 10 / 11 in the finals at Stockholm.

In 1992, Polgár tied for second behind Anatoly Karpov at the Madrid International in Linares.

In his return to tournament play after the loss to Korchnoi, he tied for first at Bugojno 1978 on 10 / 15 with Karpov, both players scoring + 6-1 = 8 to finish a point ahead of Timman.

He won his preliminary group at Hamburg 1982 with 5½ / 6, but lost the final playoff match to Anatoly Karpov in extra games.

Arguably Short's finest performance came at the Amsterdam VSB tournament in 1991 when he tied for first place with Valery Salov ahead of both Kasparov and Karpov.

In 1980 at the European Team Championship in Skara, he beat reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov with black, using the extremely unorthodox opening 1. e4 a6!

A winner at Amsterdam in 1971, he came third at The Alekhine Memorial ( Moscow ) the same year, after Karpov and Stein.

He finished third behind Romanishin and Tal at Leningrad in 1977, when all three eclipsed the efforts of then world champion Anatoly Karpov.